cloud

If you’ve been watching cloud computing at all, you’ve undoubtedly seen the whole brouhaha over the Open Cloud manifesto. I won’t recount it here, mostly because – frankly – I can’t tell what’s actually going on there anymore. So and…

This blog post about Leo Laporte’s strained relationship with Twitter has me thinking this morning. The post outlines the “dangers” of twitter (using the front men of Laporte and Dave Winer) as a “closed” or “centralized” system. Now, as a…

Partner-in-crime Brad Feld has an interesting post up today entitled, “Cloud Computing Streak Marks.” The post’s impetus was some communication Brad received talking about how the “cloud” was going to be so easy “his mom could do it.” The punchline:…

I’m a bit under the weather today, so I ended canceling my Monday phone calls (which makes Tueday through Thursday hellish, of course). That left me with some “easy time” to work on the Glue agenda – something which I…

I came across this Infoworld article about Gartner’s predictions for the business intelligence market (aside: I think business intelligence will be a much bigger part of this year’s Defrag conference), and this specific bit hit me (emphasis mine): “So business…

It seems like everyone is naming their product “Glue” these days (for the record, our first post here was on March 18th, 2008), but that’s cool because Glue the conference is already starting to take shape. Our sponsors now include:…

Quietly quietly, things are beginning to take their initial shape for the inaugural Glue conference. The naysayers point to O’Reilly shuttering events and say that launching a conference like Glue is crazy in 2009. I point to past experience, and…